Scribbles and Ramblings

This is a combination of two previous posts related to the following four films from Roy Andersson: Songs from the Second Floor (2000) You, ...

 Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund)   In contemporary European soccer, some league titles are decided even before a ball is kicked. T...

Wonders in the Dark is having a top 20 Scandinavian films poll. The list of countries also includes Iceland, so in essence, it is a Nordic ...

About Endlessness (2019, Swedish co-production) 10 years ago, I laughed in delight while watching Roy Andersson’s double-bill of Songs from ...

I had been meaning to do a spotlight on Ingmar Bergman for a few years but it got pushed behind other retrospectives. A Bergman spotlight ...

Entry #13 of the Euro 2012 Book & Film Spotlight looks at the two Swedish films. Play (2011, Ruben Östlund) Play uses a verit...

Denmark leads the pack with 3 entries followed by one each from Sweden and Finland. The Blessing (2009, Denmark, Heidi Maria Faisst) Ori...

A dark open ended alley with a green garbage dumpster half-way through. On the streets on either side of the alley, people wander by en rou...

Well the festival is over. There were quite a few good movies that I saw and I even missed seeing some of the more popular festival movies. ...